Using lightboxes

Lightboxes are a fun and modern way of displaying all kinds of web content
superimposed over your web page. When you click an object, the light box
presents your chosen content "on demand" in a pop-up window.

Lightboxes can be used to display:

Pictures, as a larger
sized version of a picture thumbnail already added to your web page. If
you've used the Photo Gallery feature you'll have come across this
concept before.

To create a lightbox for a picture on your web page:

From the Target Window
tab, choose Lightbox from the Type
drop-down list.

(Optional) Add a caption
to the picture in the lightbox using the Caption
box. You can also
make the picture part of a slideshow using the Slideshow Name
drop-down list. (See Lightbox slideshows.)

Click OK.

To restrict the display size of this linked "lightboxed" picture,
WebPlus scales down
outsized pictures to a maximum width and height (default 800 x 600 pixels)
always preserving their aspect ratios. Images with native dimensions less
than these maximum dimensions are left unchanged. The maximum width and
height can be modified.

To modify the maximum linked picture
dimensions:

From
Edit>Site Properties..., select
the Images menu option.

Under
Hyperlinked Pictures, set the Max Width
and Max Height accordingly; these settings
are independent of each other.

To create a lightbox to a local picture:

As above but choose
the File option instead of Picture.

You'll have the option to embed
or link the
picture; either way, the picture always displays using its native image
dimensions.

Lightbox slideshows

Simple lightbox slideshows can be
created which are based on the pictures already placed on the same web
page. The lightbox itself will display controls to navigate through your
slideshow.

To create a lightbox slideshow:

Create a lightbox for
a picture on your web page (as above).

From the Edit
Hyperlink and Actions dialog, select the Target Window tab.

Enter a slideshow name
in the Slideshow Name drop-down list.
This will be used for other pictures to be added to this slideshow.
Click OK.

Repeat for the next
picture. The previously created slideshow name will show for other
pictures. Select the slideshow name to include this picture.

(Optional) Enter caption
text.

Click OK.

Lightbox slideshows only apply to
pictures on the same page. If pictures are added to a slideshow from
different pages, then a new slideshow will be created for each page.

Lightboxes to any hyperlink target

Lightboxes are not just limited to the display of pictures. As a light
box is actually a type of window, any hyperlink
target
can be displayed within it—typically
a form, login box, page in your site, Internet page, blog, forum, or RSS
feed. You can also view a Word file, PDF, or any other file type (using
the File option) in your lightbox.

To create a lightbox to any hyperlink target:

Select an object (picture,
button, navigation bar, or any other object) or text.

From the Target Window
tab, configure the lightbox as described previously.

Setting
global lightbox properties

As with most settings in WebPlus,
you can customize lightbox settings for the current site. Settings can
be adjusted for general lightbox controls (including border type), caption
controls (font, font size, font colour,
opacity), and background settings (colour
and opacity).

Changing
these options will affect the appearance of all lightboxes across
your site.

Disclaimer: The example companies, names
and other entities depicted in samples are fictitious. Any resemblance
to actual companies, persons or other real-life entities is
purely coincidental and no association with any real entity is
intended or should be inferred.